Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This aptly describes the Internet of Things (IoT), where many small things are coming together to shape what we all hope will deliver a great leap in the way we live and do business. According to Maciej Kranz, Cisco VP for strategic innovation, writing for IoTechExpo.com , “[In 2018] IoT security will become the No.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. Worse still, the DFS found, the vulnerability was discovered in a penetration test First American conducted on its own in December 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Invariably, Internet of Things (IoT) strategies form the backbone of those efforts. According to research from the Ponemon Institute, almost half (42 per cent) of IoT devices will use digital certificates for authentication in the next two years. The goal is then to analyse it and take impactful action.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Upon gaining an initial foothold into a telecommunications organization or network service provider, PRC state-sponsored cyber actors have identified critical users and infrastructure including systems critical to maintaining the security of authentication, authorization, and accounting. Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

In May 2018, researchers from security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab reported that cybercriminals that targeted the Dasan GPON routers were using another new zero-day flaw affecting the same routers and recruit them in their botnet. .” sox,” which is used to proxy traffic from the bot to the internet on behalf of a user.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), seniors lost $500 each on computer tech assistance scams in 2018. Internet and email fraud.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Government experts warn that in 2022, most of the exploited flaws were older software vulnerabilities and that threat actors targeted unpatched, internet-facing systems. According to the advisory, threat actors generally have the most success exploiting known vulnerabilities within the first two years of public disclosure.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2023

This would leak the Net-NTLMv2 hash of the victim to the attacker who could then relay this to another service and authenticate as the victim. Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) is a challenge-response authentication protocol used to authenticate a client to a resource on an Active Directory domain. Sounds secure, right?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Many companies now require employees to supply a one-time password — such as one sent via SMS or produced by a mobile authenticator app — in addition to their username and password when logging in to company assets online. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Authentication and Identification are Getting Harder 6. What a Secure Internet+ Looks Like 8. How We Can Secure the Internet+ 9. How to Engender Trust on the Internet+. I'm using the word "Internet+," and I'm not really happy with it.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 address over 60 vulnerabilities, including the recently disclosed zero-day flaw. The Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 includes the zero-day flaw recently disclosed by a researcher via Twitter. Of the 62 CVEs.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The report also stated that the FBI received more than 1,600 SIM swap complaints in 2021, dramatically up from 320 from 2018 to 2020. It’s best to verify these requests by contacting your network provider or company to establish the authenticity before providing such details. Minimizing SIM Swapping Attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. Software gaps Similarly, the availability of onboard Wi-Fi services has become increasingly common in commercial aircraft so passengers can stay connected to the internet even during a long flight.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Brad Marden , superintendent of cybercrime operations for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), said their investigation into who was behind U-Admin began in late 2018, after Australian citizens began getting deluged with phishing attacks via mobile text messages that leveraged the software.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been around for many years now, but few enterprises have fully embraced it. In fact, according to Microsoft’s inaugural “ Cyber Signals ” report, only 22 percent of all its Azure Active Directory (AD) enterprise clients have adopted two-factor authentication (2FA), a form of MFA.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

Researchers reported that there are 490,000 Fortinet firewalls exposing SSL VPN interfaces on the internet, and roughly 69% of them are still vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997. The researcher describes the issue as a reachable pre-authentication that impacts every SSL VPN appliance. ” states the analysis published by Bishop Fox.

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SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

On the other hand, Melcoz (also known as Mekotio) is a banking Trojan family developed by the Tetrade group which has been active since at least 2018 in Brazil, before they decided to expand overseas. We found the group attacking assets in Chile in 2018 and, more recently, in Mexico. It also includes a Bitcoin wallet stealing module.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2018

” It is common for Web sites to keep a record of the numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address of all visitors, and those addresses can be used in combination with online geolocation tools to glean information about each visitor’s hometown or region. . Currently, that update is slated to be released in mid-July 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” Storing authentication credentials for the API is a significant issue. Storing authentication credentials for the API is a significant issue.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

Terpin alleges that crooks stole almost $24 million worth of cryptocurrency after fraudulently executing a “SIM swap” on his mobile phone account at AT&T in early 2018. Terpin claims an investigation by AT&T into the 2018 breach found that an employee at an AT&T store in Norwich, Conn.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. Authenticate calls from third party authorized retailers requesting. Use a variation of unique passwords to access online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 16, 2021

But Lucky225 said the class of SMS interception he’s been testing targets a series of authentication weaknesses tied to a system developed by NetNumber , a private company in Lowell, Mass. Surprisingly, despite the fact that I publicly disclosed this in 2018 , nothing has been done to stop this relatively unsophisticated attack.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

At the time, in the spring of 2018, only 25 percent of commercial websites used HTTPS; today adoption is at 98 percent and rising. TLS is a component of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , the system used to encrypt data, as well as to authenticate individual users and the web servers they log onto.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 29, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has revealed a sophisticated spyware activity involving ISPs (internet service providers) aiding in downloading powerful commercial spyware onto users’ mobile devices. A Hermit spyware campaign starts off as a seemingly authentic messaging app users are deceived into downloading.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

during the talk “Bug Hunting in RouterOS” at Derbycon , it leverages a known directory traversal flaw tracked as CVE-2018-14847. The Chimay Red hacking tool leverages 2 exploits, the Winbox Any Directory File Read (CVE-2018-14847) and Webfig Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. release date: 05-25-2018) using the x86 ISO.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The flaws are a Directory Traversal (CVE-2018-10822), Password stored in plaintext (CVE-2018-10824), and a Shell command injection (CVE-2018-10823). Researchers found a directory traversal vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-10822, that could be exploited by remote attackers to read arbitrary files using an HTTP request.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The configuration issue made this access point publicly available on the Internet. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. Most immediately is the ubiquity of 2-factor authentication. Our phone numbers are now frequently used as authenticators when websites requires us to verify our login with an SMS message.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Pluto TV is an American internet television service, it is an advertiser-supported video on demand (AVOD) service that primarily offers a selection of programming content through digital linear channels designed to emulate the experience of traditional broadcast programming. A hacker has shared 3.2

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2021

Isolate Internet-facing services in a network Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to reduce exposure of the internal network. Enable robust logging of Internet-facing services and authentication functions. This targeting and exploitation encompasses US and allied networks, including national security and government related systems.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone. The researchers scanned the Internet for printers that are exposing their Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) port online. and printers (or print servers).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

As KrebsOnSecurity observed back in 2018 , many people — particularly older folks — proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. In 2018, the U.S.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2018

Many IT specialists are predicting that 2018 will be “the year of the cloud”, as companies increasingly have to deal with the backup needs of massive amounts of data, connect more and more devices to the Internet of Things , and start to appreciate the benefits that a cloud-based IT strategy can offer.

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